It’s not sustainable to keep setting stretching financial targets for the NHS. What the health service needs is some honest dialogue about the current state of play, says Adam Wright of NHS Providers.
The housing and health sectors need to align their services more closely, to house essential workers and improve the patient experience, says Andrew Van Doorn.
Conditions in the National Health Service have worsened in the last year and staff feel unable to provide the standard of care they have been trained to deliver.
The total deficit of NHS providers had risen above £1bn by the end of 2017 following additional demand on accident & emergency services over the October-December period, according to...
Clinical negligence claims are on the increase and the cost of settling future claims is expected to cost £65bn, NHS bodies have warned the Ministry of Justice.
Only if the government comes up with a longer-term sustainable funding plan for healthcare will it avoid another winter crisis in the NHS like this year’s, says NHS Providers’...
To keep the NHS sustainable for the long term, the starting point should be a review by a royal commission, taking it outside politics, says Robert Colvile, director of the Centre for Policy Studies.
A parliamentary watchdog has urged the government to improve nurses’ working conditions and access to training in order to prevent an increasing number of staff leaving the profession.
Law firm DAC Beachcroft has warned NHS bodies that PFI contracts involving the failed Carillion firm could be at risk even where it was part of a consortium.
